Happy Thanksgiving!
The library will have altered hours for the holiday this week. Scroll down to view this week's hours!
A Trip To The Dordogne Region of France!
Join Jeff Klapes, the Traveling Librarian, for another of his popular armchair travel presentations.
This month, journey to the Dordogne region of central France. Also known as the Perigord, the area is focused on the meandering Dordogne River, which eventually passes the grand city of Bordeaux on its way to the Atlantic Ocean. With its distinctive cuisine, dramatic medieval castles and churches, and prehistoric caves and other monuments, the Dordogne is rich in history and French culture. Jeff is the recently retired Head of Reference Services at the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library in Wakefield and an avid traveler and photographer.
This is a virtual presentation to be held on Zoom. Register HERE!
This event brought to you in partnership with the Tewksbury Public Library.
This week's events:
Topsfield Library events in purple (View the Topsfield Library's calendar here)
Mah jongg: Tue 11/22, 1-4pm: Drop-in Mahjongg is back! All levels welcome, no sign-up necessary.
A Virtual Trip To The Dordogne Region of France with The Traveling Librarian Jeff Klapes: Tue 11/22, 2-3pm: Join Jeff Klapes, the Traveling Librarian, for another of his popular armchair travel presentations. This month, journey to the Dordogne region of central France. This program brought to you in partnership with the Tewksbury Public Library. Sign up here. (Zoom)
Holiday Hours!
The library will be closing early on Wednesday, and closed Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving Holiday!
We will be back to regular hours the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We wish you all a safe and happy holiday!
Native American Heritage Month
Celebrate indigenous authors this month! We have a whole list of recommendations, starting with the highlighted books below!
Night of the Living Rez: Stories
By Morgan Talty
Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.
Tread of Angels
By Rebecca Roanhorse
Celeste, a card sharp with a penchant for trouble, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class in the mining town of Goetia, in a new world of dark fantasy.
Woman of Light
By Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930's Denver on her own, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors' origins, how her family flourished and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion.
